Multitemporal MERIS images for land-cover mapping at a national scale: A case study of Portugal

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2063-2082

  Carrao H ^a,b   Araujo A ^a   Goncalves P ^c   Caetano, M ^a,b  

^a Portuguese Geographic Institute IGP   (Portugal)

^b NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; SATELLITES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC PRODUCTION; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OVERALL ACCURACIES; REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING;

MAPPING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MERIS; NOMENCLATURE; PRECISION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 77951843996     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902942910     Document Type: Article

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